NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

One Giant Leap

Hardware. People. Missions.

For the Benefit of All.

For four years, I worked as a staff photographer for NASA, documenting an extraordinary range of people, projects, and events. The work gave me the privilege of working alongside some of the brightest minds in science and a firsthand look at the people behind our exploration of Earth and the space beyond it.

It was a childhood dream come true and remains some of the work I’m proudest to have been a part of.

Daughters of Katherine Johnson and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito celebrating at the dedication of NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility

Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather speaking in the production room at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Array of satellite communications dishes at a NASA facility

NASA engineers working around spacecraft hardware inside the robotics facility

Exterior of NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility

Panelists seated onstage during a NASA public event

Audience watching a heliophysics presentation at NASA

Spacecraft hardware with a vertical solar array inside a testing room

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine giving remarks to a large audience in Capitol Hill

NASA clean-room technician wearing a protective cap and face covering while working on spacecraft hardware

Fossils discovered in Tanis by Robert DePalma that show evidence of the Meteor extinction event

Spacecraft instrument being hoisted inside a NASA high-bay facility

NASA scientist presenting onstage at the Wallops Flight Facility

Rocket standing at the Wallops Flight Facility launch pad

NASA Goddard scientist presenting satellite imagery on a large video wall

Wide view of a NASA clean room with technicians and equipment

NASA guest seated at a computer console during a presentation

Linda Dessau smiling while speaking with guests at the NASA Goddard robotics room

Interior view of one of the fans that drive the air circulation through the largest clean room in the world at NASA Goddard

NASA scientist examining satellite imagery of Earth on a computer display

Rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility

NASA official speaking in front of a large solar visualization

Satellite tracking dish and cable arrays beneath a blue sky

Close-up of hands holding a small spacecraft component

Clean-room technician adjusting spacecraft hardware

Professional portrait of a NASA scientist against a nebula background

Close-up of an optical sensor illuminated inside a laboratory

Close-up of a clean room filter with a large white blur in the center representing NASA Goddard's largest clean room

NASA ISS Manager Pete Hasbrook speaking on a panel for a public press conference

Visitors touring a NASA supercomputing facility

Group observing an illuminated experiment inside a dark laboratory

Robotic arm operating around gold spacecraft hardware

White rocket plume curling across a clear blue sky

White spacecraft instrument mounted for clean-room testing

NASA astronaut Victor Glover smiling while wearing a blue flight suit

Clean-room technician working on spacecraft electronics

NASA group portrait photographed from above

A woman presenting new equipment materials at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

NASA staffers recording in the audio production control room

Large clean room filter panel array inside a NASA facility

NASA's Dr. John Mather answering questions during a media interview

Visitors receiving a briefing inside a NASA high-bay facility

NASA scientist seated at her desk inside an office

Former Shuttle commander Pamela Melroy talking to an awardee beside Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Hi, I’m Taylor

My time at NASA helped shape the photographer I am today. The work demanded technical precision, adaptability, and the ability to recognize important moments as they unfolded—whether I was photographing a rocket launch, documenting engineers at work, or covering an event at Goddard.

The work was both rewarding and exciting to be part of, and I utilize many of the lessons I learned in those years in my work today.

Selected Work

Many subjects.
One perspective.

The subject changes. The standard does not. Across people, institutions, performance, food, commercial work, and the natural world, the approach stays deliberate, observant, and grounded in what is actually there.